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Re:Easy Forth by kragen on Monday September 22, 2025 @03:31PM (#45338354)
No, Bitcoin Script is not Forth. Bitcoin Script is designed to guarantee termination, so no Turing-complete programming language was permitted. Like BPF, Bitcoin Script doesn't have subroutine definitions or backward jumps, so each opcode executes at most once.

This is like saying JSON is C++.

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Re:Easy Forth by adastra22 on Monday September 22, 2025 @03:56PM (#45338656)
It's more like saying JSON is Javascript, which it is to a degree.
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Re:Easy Forth by kragen on Monday September 22, 2025 @04:33PM (#45339086)
I considered that analogy and consciously rejected it.
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